80 billion pounds of food is thrown out in the U.S. Here s how this new app wants to stop food waste
“We realized that today, one-third of the food we produce ends up in the trash, said Lucie Basch, Co-Founder of the Too Good To Waste app. Author: Megan Rivers Updated: 7:08 AM EST March 4, 2021
WASHINGTON Across the United States, about 80 billion pounds of food is thrown out every year. That’s nearly 40% of the U.S. food supply. A new app is hoping to curb that number in the District to help residents get perfectly good food – for a discount - that would otherwise have been tossed out.
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Eat delicious food, support restaurants, and fight waste. Too Good To Go is a game-changer for apps By Michael Klein, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: February 28, 2021, 6:30am
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At the end of their shifts in restaurants all over the world, cooks roll up garbage barrels to their work stations. Into the cans goes a lot of unsold prepared food noodles and meats and chicken and lettuce and tomatoes and rolls and what have you.
But what if this still-delicious food instead could be portioned into takeout containers, marketed on the fly, and sold at a deep discount to savvy customers that day and not wasted?